In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language

A corpus-driven approach

Editors

Shlomo Izre'el

| Tel Aviv University

Heliana Mello

| Federal University of Minas Gerais

Alessandro Panunzi

| University of Florence - LABLITA

Tommaso Raso

| Federal University of Minas Gerais

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What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their own theoretical and practical experience to the table. In the first part of the book they segment spoken material from a range of different languages (Russian, Hebrew, Central Pomo (an indigenous language from California), French, Japanese, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese). In the second part of the book each author analyzes the same two spoken English samples, but looking at them from different perspectives, using different methods of analysis as reflected in their respective analyses in Part I. This approach allows for common tendencies of segmentation to emerge, both prosodic and segmental.

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] 2020. xi, 440 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.94

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction. In search of a basic unit of spoken language: Segmenting speech Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso	1–32
Part I	33–299
Chapter 1. Russian spoken discourse: Local structure and prosody Andrej A. Kibrik, Nikolay A. Korotaev and Vera I. Podlesskaya	35–76
Chapter 2. The basic unit of spoken language and the interfaces between prosody, discourse and syntax: A View from spontaneous spoken Hebrew Shlomo Izre'el	77–105
Chapter 3. Prosody and the organization of information in Central Pomo, a California indigenous language Marianne Mithun	107–126
Chapter 4. Syntactic and prosodic segmentation in spoken French Jeanne-Marie Debaisieux and Philippe Martin	127–154
Chapter 5. Design and annotation of two-level utterance units in Japanese Takehiko Maruyama, Yasuharu Den and Hanae Koiso	155–180
Chapter 6. The pragmatic analysis of speech and its illocutionary classification according to the Language into Act Theory Emanuela Cresti	181–219
Chapter 7. Illocution as a unit of reference for spontaneous speech: An account of insubordinated adverbial clauses in Brazilian Portuguese Giulia Bossaglia, Heliana Mello and Tommaso Raso	221–256
Chapter 8. Narrative discourse segmentation in clinical linguistics Mira B. Bergelson and Mariya V. Khudyakova	257–284
Chapter 9. Cross-linguistic comparison of automatic detection of speech breaks in read and narrated speech in four languages Plínio A. Barbosa	285–299
Part II	301–431
Same texts, different approaches to segmentation: An introduction to the second part of the volume Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso	303–307
Chapter 1. Segmentation and analysis of the two English excerpts: The Brazilian team proposal Tommaso Raso, Plínio A. Barbosa, Frederico A. Cavalcante and Maryualê M. Mittmann	309–325
Chapter 2. Analysis of two English spontaneous speech examples with the dependency incremental prosodic structure model Philippe Martin	327–336
Chapter 3. Applying criteria of spontaneous Hebrew speech segmentation to English Shlomo Izre'el	337–348
Chapter 4. Basic units of speech segmentation Marianne Mithun	349–358
Chapter 5. Segmentation of the English texts Navy and Hearts with SUU and LUU Takehiko Maruyama	359–366
Chapter 6. The Moscow approach to local discourse structure: An application to English Andrej A. Kibrik, Nikolay A. Korotaev and Vera I. Podlesskaya	367–382
Chapter 7. Some notes on the Hearts and Navy excerpts according to the Language into Act Theory Emanuela Cresti and Massimo Moneglia	383–401
Chapter 8. Comparing annotations for the prosodic segmentation of spontaneous speech: Focus on reference units Alessandro Panunzi, Lorenzo Gregori and Bruno Rocha	403–431
Index	433–440